Average
Average adjective - Having or showing the qualities associated with the members of a particular group or kind.
Usage example: the company's marketing people want to interview average teenagers to see what kinds of clothes appeal to them
Outlandish is an antonym for average.
Outlandish
Outlandish adjective - Different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion.
Usage example: an outlandish outfit made entirely out of bottle caps
Average is an antonym for outlandish.
Both words in one sentence
- This trope is for instances when an "average person" who can't possibly predict future nostalgia is depicted having an outlandish amount of Genre Savviness.
Source: Popular History -
Garish clothes were a result of association with Gypsies, commonly depicted as wearing outlandish (in the eyes of an average medieval European), multicolored clothes.
Source: Bright Is Not Good
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